Lot: 78
Charles Pratt History of Cawthorne, Barnsley, 1882, octavo, original gilt cloth, nine laid down photographs as plates (one loose); few minor fox marks; binding worn at extremities; vi,175pp
Lot: 79
A. Crosfield [and Thomas Langdale] The History of North-Allerton, in the County of York. To which is added a Description of the Castle-Hills. J. Langdale, Northallerton, 1791; contemp. quarter calf, marbled boards, worn, head & tail of backstrip chipped; spotting to endpapers, pastedown with bookplate; clean text. 80pp
Lot: 80
An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town of Lancaster, C. Clark, 1811, 2nd Edn, octavo, original boards, backstrip largely worn away; uncut, fine internally with folding Map, folding Plans (2) and a further plate; lacks front endpaper, half-title intact; index, errata leaf; vii,128,[5]pp
Lot: 81
P. Mannex Topography and Directory of Lancaster and Sixteen Miles Round; with an Essay on the Science of Geology. P.Mannex & Co, Preston, 1881; octavo, original cloth discoloured, spine frayed and partly detached, gilt title to front, hinges weak; good clean text including extensive listing of all the householders and their occupations; adverts at front & rear; [8],349,[11]pp
Lot: 84
John H. Cooke Bibliotheca Cestriensis, or a Biographical Account of Books, Maps, Plates, and other Printed Matter relating to….The County of Chester. Mackie & Co, 1904, tall quarto, half-vellum, gilt, VG, No. 89 of 200 issued; fine internally; 218pp + index + tissue-guarded half-tone plates. Some light foxing to fore-edge. Upper-right corners bumped.
Lot: 85
[J. Seacome] The History of the House of Stanley, from the Conquest to the Death of …Edward, late Earl of Derby, in 1776…..to which is added a Complete History of The Isle of Man, J. Gleave, 1821; rebound in modern quarter cloth, gilt, over marbled boards; light browning to text, the five plates and title page cleaned; pp.191-230 with variable staining to lower right corner (not affecting text). 260pp
Lot: 86
The Manchester & Salford Director for 1829, containing an Alphabetical List of the Principal Inhabitants; also a Classification of the Professions, Trades, &c. with a separate list of the Country Manufacturers. M. Wardle, Manchester, [1828]; octavo, modern three-quarter calf over marbled boards, fine; gift inscription of 1888 on reverse of endpaper; title-page partly detached; spotting to prelims and few minor tone marks elsewhere; 6pp of advertisements at rear; viii,224,65,(42)pp. No copies recorded by Copac.
Lot: 87
Pigot & Deans’ New Directory of Manchester, Salford, &c. for 1821-2; containing an Alphabetical List of the Manufacturers, and Inhabitants in General, with the numbers as affixed to their doors. R. & W. Dean and J. Pigot, Manchester, [1821], octavo, modern three-quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt, raised bands, VG; complete with two attractive folding maps of Manchester and Lancashire, each with stamps on reverse of the Manchester Law Incorporated Library. Gift inscription of 1888 on reverse of first map. Some occasional foxing but generally clean text. Engraved advertsing plate for J. Pigot after title page; further advert plate at rear. Collated as complete.
Lot: 88
G.H. Tupling The Economic History of Rossendale, Manchester University Press, 1927, tall octavo, original gilt cloth, spine a little faded, recased with new endpapers; occasional spotting, mainly to text margins; six maps and plans, four folding; 274pp. Good
Lot: 89
John Mills(1821-1896) Threads from the Life of John Mills, Banker (Author of Vox Humana) interwoven with some early recollections by his wife, Sherratt & Hughes, Manchester, 1899, original gilt cloth, fine; top edge gilt, uncut elsewhere, partly unopened; fine internally; front endpapers replaced; tissue-guarded frontispiece and 15 other plates; xiv,403pp [This work focuses principally on the subject’s life in Ashton-under-Lyne, with good sections on Bowdon and Nantwich]. Scarce
Lot: 90
William Grainge The History and Topography of the Townships of Little Timble, Great Timble and the Hamlet of Snowden, in the West Riding of the County of York, William Walker, Otley, 1895; small 8vo, original printed & gilt cloth, recased with new endpapers; fine internally; two b/w plates; 240pp
Lot: 91
Thomas Harwood Alumni Etonenses; or, a Catalogue of the Provosts & Fellows of Eton College & King’s College, Cambridge, from the Foundation in 1443, to the Year 1797, Cadell & Davies, J. Deighton, and M. Pote, 1797; quarto, contemp. worn half leather over marbled boards, marble-edged, by R. Davies of Birmingham; ownership inscription of 1932; fine clean text. pp.viii,363,(1).
Lot: 94
Epistles & letters of Saint Thomas Becket. Epistolae Et Vita Divi Thomae Martyris Et Archi-Episcopi Cantvariensis. Nec Non Epistolae Alexandri III. Pontificis, Galliae Regis Ludovici Septimi, Angliae Regis Henrici II. Aliarumque plurium Sublimium ex utroque Foro Personarum. Edited by Christian Lupus from manuscripts held at the Vatican. Printed by Henri Fricx, Brussels, 1682; quarto, 2 volumes, in 18th Century polished calf, gilt; bookplates of James Whatman (1702-1759) paper maker and inventor of wove paper. Occasional minor spotting o/w fine internally; [12],905,[76]pp. VG
Lot: 101
London Transport Local Road & Rail Timetables (14) 1957-70 plus 1970s London Country Services timetables (6); mainly good to VF. Also 1976 staff timetable lacking cover. (21)
Lot: 122
John Hill The Family Herbal, or an Account of all those English Plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, Bungay, 1812, octavo, rebound in fine 20th Century green half-calf, gilt, with raised bands, marbled boards, new endpapers; complete with 54 hand-coloured plates; few early pages & first plate a little grubby o/w fine internally; lacks index; viii,xl,366pp
Lot: 123
Richard Reece The Medical Guide, 15th Edn, 1828, contemp. half-leather, gilt, VG, xxiv,566pp; H. Tomlinson The Divination of Disease: A Study in Radiesthesia, 1953, foxing to prelims; The Philosophy of Insanity, Fireside Press, 1947, in d/jkts; and others of medical interest. Fair to VF (7)
Lot: 124
William Hamilton An Account of Certain Traces of Volcanos on the Banks of the Rhine, London, 1777, 6pp article from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol.68, bound in modern half-leather, gilt; plus two other bound articles on tectonic activity comprising Forbes On the Horary Oscillations of the Barometer near Edinburgh, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol.12, 1831, pp153-190, plus plate; and Baker, Gass et al The Volcanological Report of the Royal Society Expedition to Tristan Da Cunha, 1962, 4to, 141pp plus 18 plates & folding Map; modern cloth, gilt. VG/VF (3)
Lot: 125
James Jennings Ornithologia, or The Birds; a Poem, in two Parts; with an Introduction to their Natural History; and copious notes. Poole & Edwards, 1828 First Edition; nineteenth century cloth, gilt, backstrip a little faded o/w VG; bookplate removed from front pastedown; engraved frontispiece, and a further frontispiece to Part Two on Foreign Birds; each part with its own pictorial half-title, the foot of the half-title to Part One repaired. A small library stamp of the Islington Literary & Scientific Society in the margin of two pages in the text o/w fine internally; pp.xxix,(3),468,6.
Lot: 129
Charles Heaton History of the Life of Albrecht Durer, Macmillan, 1870, 1st Edn, quarto, original gilt cloth, rebacked, spine faded, a.e.g.; fine internally with all plates including Autotypes. List of contents misbound; xv,340pp.
Lot: 132
[Hugh Shimmin] Liverpool Life: Its Pleasures, Practices, and Pastimes, Egerton Smith, Liverpool, 1856, 19th Century gilt cloth, VG, fine text, 111pp ; bound with C. Dunning Clark Warncliffe, The Wanderer (all of which has been singed by fire!) and two stories extracted from Tales from the Note-Book of a Parish Officer. [Liverpool Life is an excellent survey of popular entertainments of the day including the Theatre, Gambling and Dog Fighting]